Daniel Dennett: 19 books
Van bacterie naar Bach en terug
de evolutie van de geest
Language: Dutch
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Vijfentwintig jaar na het meesterwerk van Daniel Dennett over het bewustzijn, 'Het bewustzijn verklaard', verschijnt de opvolger: 'Van bacterie naar Bach en terug'. In dit nieuwe boek onderzoekt Dennett hoe je abstracte begrippen als ziel, intelligentie en creativiteit kunt beschrijven. De auteur...
The Four Horsemen
The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
In 2007, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett filmed a landmark discussion about modern atheism. The video went viral. Now in print for the first time, the transcript of their conversation is illuminated by new essays from three of the original participants and an...
Neuroscience and Philosophy
Brain, Mind, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions...
Los jinetes del Apocalipsis
Una conversación brillante sobre ciencia, fe, religión y ateísmo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Cuando empezaba a despuntar el movimiento del nuevo ateísmo, los heraldos del ocaso religioso que acabarían siendo conocidos como los "Cuatro Jinetes" ―Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett y Sam Harris― se reunieron para tomar una copa y a modo de experimento grabaron...
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
The Long Reach of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
By the best selling author of The Selfish Gene 'This entertaining and thought-provoking book is an excellent illustration of why the study of evolution is in such an exciting ferment these days.' Science 'The Extended Phenotype is a sequel to The Selfish Gene . . . he writes so clearly it could be...
Ellenbogenfreiheit
Die erstrebenswerten Formen freien Willens
Language: German
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Daniel C. Dennett hat mit seinem international sehr beachteten Buch "Ellenbogenfreiheit" einen originellen Vorschlag zur Frage erbracht, wie man unsere Intuition über Freiheit, Rationalität und Verantwortung mit dem Bild von einer deterministischen Welt in Einklang bringen könne. Nach...
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical...
Elbow Room
The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
A landmark book in the debate over free will that makes the case for compatibilism.
In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, “saving everything that mattered about the...
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers “yes!” Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly...
Brainstorms
Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
An anniversary edition of a classic in cognitive science, with a new introduction by the author.
When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs—and...
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Evolution and the Meaning of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates...
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
"Brilliant...as audacious as its title....Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant." --George Johnson, New York Times Book Review
Consciousness Explained is a a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional,...
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Denken is niet zo simpel als we denken en toch doen we het de hele dag door, we kunnen niet anders. Maar hoe zouden we béter kunnen denken? Dingen sneller kunnen doorzien? In zijn wetenschappelijke carrière heeft Daniel C. Dennett over talrijke disciplines geschreven, gesproken en nagedacht: psychologie,...
by Daniel C. Dennett
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
“[The] best scientific-philosophical approach to understanding how consciousness evolved.… A wonderful book that will shape and drive thinking for years to come.”—Shane O’Mara, Times Higher Education
How did we come to have minds? For centuries, poets, philosophers, psychologists,...
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